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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Minal Hajratwala''' (born 1971) is a writer, performer, poet, and [[queer]] [[activist]] of [[India]]n descent. She was born in 1971 in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], [[US]], and was raised in [[New Zealand]] and suburban [[Michigan]]. She is a graduate of [[Stanford University]].<ref name="Rustomji-Kerns1995">{{cite book|author=Roshni Rustomji-Kerns|title=Living in America: poetry and fiction by South Asian American writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBdaAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=30 March 2013|year=1995|publisher=Westview Press|isbn=978-0-8133-2379-4|page=270}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
She is the author of ''Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), which [[Alice Walker]] has called "incomparable,"<ref>[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=688318 {{dubious|date=June 2019}}''Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents'' profile] at its publisher's website</ref> and ''[[The Washington Post]]'' has characterized as "searingly honest."<ref>Shepard, Shadia. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031301272.html "Book Review: 'Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents' By Minal Hajratwala"], ''The Washington Post'', 15 March 2009.</ref> She researched and wrote the book during a seven-year period, traveling the world to interview more than 75 members of her extended family.<br />
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Hajratwala's creative work has appeared in journals, anthologies, and theater spaces and has received recognition and support from the [[Sundance Institute]], the [[Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts|Jon Sims Center for the Arts]], the SerpentSource Foundation, and the [[Hedgebrook]] writing retreat for women, where she serves on the Alumnae Leadership Council. For [[World AIDS Day]] in 1999, the [[Asian Art Museum of San Francisco]] commissioned her one-woman show, "Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium."<br />
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She previously worked as a journalist at the ''[[San Jose Mercury News]]'' for eight years, was a board member of the [[National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association]], and was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at [[Columbia University]]'s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000-01.<br />
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In June 2011 Hajratwala and Tom MacMaster, creator of [[Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari]], engaged in an online dispute over the posting of MacMaster's manuscript.<ref name="Mackey">Mackey, Robert. "[http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/while-posing-as-a-syrian-lesbian-male-blogger-tried-to-get-a-book-deal/ While Posing as a Syrian Lesbian, Male Blogger Tried to Get a Book Deal]." ''[[The New York Times]]''. June 22, 2011. Retrieved on July 6, 2011.</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
*2009 ''Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents''<br />
*2010 ''[[Out! Stories from The New Queer India]]'' (editor)<br />
*2015 ''Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment''<br />
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